Fully Up To Date

I know I have been lazy and not updating this thing, but from now on I am gonna. Pinky promise!

So basically I'm just gonna fill you guys and gals in with whats been going on in my life with photos and what not.

I'll be skimming though a lot of stuff too catch up on currently what I'm doing, the photos are posted from oldest to newest in before the break lines. So enough said lets see some pics and words

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September 17, 2010, Fiona Gregory

So I met this girl Fiona, I jokingly asked to her to do pictures with me and she said yes, nothing was thought much of it, a few days later she facebook'd me asking if I was serious, of course I said yes, and I'm glad I did. Its led to an amazing friendship and much experience needed on my photo side.

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October 9, 2010 Mark Teng's Lamborghini Gallardo

Mark had invited me to go to cars and coffee in Tucson, I loved every second of it, the only down side was... i only got about 30 minutes with the Gallardo and we didn't really have a great spot to shoot it in. Oh well its still a Lambo!

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October 15, 2010 Full Race

So finally I am back at work with Full Race shooting their products. There has been many new things since then, one of thm being the one off manifold made for Geoff's R14. This is a RB26DET Wastegateless EFR manifold, the only one of its kind especially for his car. This manifold and turbo set up is projected to make over a 1000 horse power with ease. The manifold it self is a work of art, seeing as this is Full Race this isn't a surprise, over 3/4 of the welds are done with a special robotic welder that is in house!

I'm pretty confident this manifold will be in full production soon, and the estimated retail price with an EFR turbo will be around $6000 dollars.

To find more about the EFR turbo and prices, click here

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October 16, 2010 Chris & Debra's Wedding

I got an opportunity to shadow a wedding with a well experienced photographer. I learned SO MUCH in 3 hours. I have used those skills in my recent wedding I just shot last Saturday. He was very helpful and not afraid to speak his mind about photos and where I was. I enjoyed the learning experience very much and i was really glad I took the opportunity.

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October 16, 2010 Xtreme Drift Circuit Phoenix, AZ

Oh man did I mess this one up, these pictures were for Import tuner, my camera battery died as soon as i stepped out on the track, oh well you live and you learn! The event felt like any other drift event. Just the addition of gogo dancer which is always nice!

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October 22, 2010 Melissa Arencibia

Melissa, one of my friends friends, called me up for a gradation shoot! She treated me with a wonderful dinner afterwards.

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October 22, 2010 Siddhi & Pratik Engagement Party

Oh man I really don't know where to really begin on this one, since I am a very straight up person.. I really didn't enjoy this shoot at all. Some of the people were just eye balling me very rudely and the couple were extremely hard to work with. But what can you do.

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November 1st , 2010 I moved and we got a shop

Hi everyone, thanks for looking. We are Synergy Performance and we have just opened up shop here in Peoria. We are based out of Missouri but have opened another shop here in the Vally. We are here to help you with any of your problems that you may be having with your Honda, Nissan, or whatever you may have. We love new projects and arnt afraid to take a look at any job. We can do everything from installing new bolt of performance parts, diagnosing vehicle concerns, to even rebuilding you a new engine or transmission. We just finished an engine build for an Acura integra that make almost 800fwhp. We sale parts, we build engines, we even have the knowledge of hella flush/poke/stretch. We work late often even to help in those times when you need it most. So let us work for you and get you back on the road, or lets build something sick! Also, while we work on your car we can also do a photoshoot durring or after for additional cost, just let us know what you are interested in.

Call or Text:
Keith 573-576-7477
Charles 251-253-2032

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November 6th , 2010 Cars and Coffee Scottsdale, AZ

Dang, I missed the first half, but managed to find the 2nd half of it

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November 7th , 2010 Bryant Peters Chevrolet Silverado 1500

Me and Bryant have been putting off this shoot for the past 2 months. Well we finally got around to it, we had went out to a recreation area off highway 87 going out to Payson. I had been up for over 25 hours and my mind for creativity was extremely lacking, I completely failed at the action shots and we plan to go back and redo them.

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All caught up!

Formula D Las Vegas

Ahh Formula D, something I’ve had the itch for it ever since it started. I’ve seen plenty of photos from speedhunters, motormavens etc., and I had always looked at my photos from firebird, but they could never compare. I wondered why… I thought I was lighting and colors, but I had my doubts. But I was damn right about it.

This event was being held in Las Vegas. With this in mind, I knew it was going be in a parking lot. I was kind of bummed about it, but what can you do? I was just excited that I was getting a chance to go to Formula D. The trip got off to a rough start. A few hours before we were scheduled to leave, I was walking towards the Integra we were going to take, and it happen to have a flat tire… so I pulled some strings and got an extra pair of rims for the trip.

The trip didn’t feel too long, but I was happy to see the Vegas lights.

We spent the night at a friend’s house; the next morning was full of anticipation for the event. But of course, seeing as how I’m a chubby kid, I had to get my eat on before the event. We stopped at a nice Mexican restaurant called “On The Boarder”, where I had the most AMAZING fish tacos of my life!

Finally it was time to head to the event. We got there fairly early; so parking wasn’t bad at all. Now this is where things began to go downhill. First off, I was already pretty upset about that fact I didn’t get a media pass, and on top of that that it was hot, very hot.

We did a ton of walking around before the drifting even began, and I’m not gonna lie, the event felt like SPOCOM, but outside.

The biggest problem though out the entire event was location, location, location, oh and did I mention LOCATION? There was only ONE good spot to shoot from, and my 200mm just didn’t have the reach. Oh did I forget to say there were at least 50 people I had to fight though to get to the front? Not the mention the RUDE people that would purposely stand in front of me. The shots came out OK at best, but if I’d had a media pass, I’m sure I could have gotten better.

The last hours were just frustrating, I kept getting bumped into, and people were just being flat out annoying. Their comments were just ignorant as hell and some guy had this clapper thing that he’d hit every time they would drift. Let’s just say I wasn’t the only one getting annoyed by it.

I expected a little more, but the course was just so short and not technical at all. I guess they did their best with a parking lot. Overall, the event was ok.

Edited by Fiona Gregory